Mont Blanc du Tacul
Mont Blanc du Tacul is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif of the French Alps situated midway between the Aiguille du Midi and Mont Blanc. The official first ascent of Mont Blanc du Tacul was by a guideless party comprising Charles Hudson, Edward John Stevenson, Christopher and James Grenville Smith, E.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Aiguilles du Diable and L’Isolée.
Aiguilles du Diable
Peak
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The Aiguilles du Diable are a group of five rock needles, all over 4,000 metres high, on the southeast arête of the Mont Blanc du Tacul. The pinnacles lie within the French part of the Mont Blanc Massif in the departement of Haute-Savoie.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Grand Couloir and Entrèves.
Grand Couloir
Locality
Entrèves
Hamlet
Photo: Kulmalukko, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Entrèves is a frazione of Courmayeur in the Aosta Valley region of Italy.
Les Praz
Hamlet
Photo: Kulmalukko, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Les-Praz-de-Chamonix is a mountain village in the French Alps, part of the commune of Chamonix. Altitude: 1060 m. Les Praz is situated 9 km north of Mont Blanc du Tacul.
Mont Blanc du Tacul
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 4,248 metres
- Description: mountain in the Mont Blanc massif of the Alps
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Chamonix, Arrondissement of Bonneville, Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe
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Latitude
45.85659° or 45° 51′ 24″ northLongitude
6.88852° or 6° 53′ 19″ eastElevation
4,248 metres (13,937 feet)Open location code
8FQ8VV4Q+JCOpenStreetMap ID
node 344715573OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Venetian—“Mont Blanc du Tacul” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Mont Blanc du Tacul”
- Bulgarian: “Монблан дю Такюл”
- Catalan: “Mont Blanc du Tacul”
- Cebuano: “Mont Blanc du Tacul”
- Chinese: “勃朗杜塔库峰”
- Czech: “Mont Blanc du Tacul”
- Dutch: “Mont Blanc du Tacul”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونت بلانك دو تاكول”
- Finnish: “Mont Blanc du Tacul”
- French: “mont Blanc du Tacul”
- French: “Mont Blanc du Tacul”
- German: “Mont Blanc du Tacul”
- Italian: “Mont Blanc du Tacul”
- Ladin: “Mont Blanc du Tacul”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mont Blanc du Tacul”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Mont Blanc du Tacul”
- Polish: “Mont Blanc du Tacul”
- Portuguese: “Monte Branco do Tacul”
- Russian: “Монблан-дю-Такюль”
- Spanish: “Mont Blanc du Tacul”
- Swahili: “Mont Blanc du Tacul”
- Venetian: “Monte Blanc du Tacul”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Le Petit Plateau and Le Corridor.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Tacul et Contreforts and Couloir Gervasutti.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mont Blanc du Tacul”. Photo: Rémih, CC BY-SA 4.0.